Jan 2017

I came, I looked, I judged: I misunderstood.

slapdashery.org

Ben Sauer’s article is the first time I’ve heard about “Chesterton’s Law”:
“reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.”
The article aims to be a […]
#design
2017

Technical and social challenges of conversational design

uxdesign.cc

Currently doing some research into the trendy “conversational UX” trend, these nine learnings from Adrian Zumbrunnen turning his website into a chatbot are interesting to read.
Designing conversational experiences is hard because the […]
2017

The Ikeaisation of the Web

filmicweb.org

In this read-worthy flaming letter, Joscha Jaeger responds to a claim by Facebook’s director of design Jon Lax that “the web is dying” and highlights how this framing is that of a big corporation who merely sees the web as delivery platform […]
2017

Solid

solid.mit.edu

Solid is an exciting new project led by Prof. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute. The project aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in […]
2017

Reposting a Tweet by Luis Frias

twitter.com

A well formulated call-to-action in defence of the freedom of the web: http://filmicweb.org/open-web/ikeaisation-of-the-web/ “Learn, teach, advocate” says @OpenHypervideo
2017

A Visual Guide to Practical Data De-Identification

fpf.org

What do scientists, regulators and lawyers mean when they talk about de-identification? How does anonymous data differ from pseudonymous or de-identified information? Data identifiability is not binary. Data lies on a spectrum with multiple […]
2017

A lawyer rewrote Instagram's terms of service for kids

qz.com

There is a lot of interesting analysis and recommendation in the “Growing up digital” report from the UK’s Children’s Commissioner referenced in this article - and the simplified terms and conditions (that nobody ever reads) are only […]
2017

Duped by the Automated Public Sphere

discoversociety.org

In this article, professor of law at the University of Maryland Frank Pasquale, makes the case for why automated generation of “news content” is so dangerous to our societies. Yet, this is not only about automation, but also about […]
2017